I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best.

I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

Frances Farmer

Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.

Thomas M. Sterner

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

Conrad Hall

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Angelina Jolie

The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn.

Robert Teeter

Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

Edward Weston

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

Sir Winston Churchill

My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.

Alexander Ludwig

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Lord Byron

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Angela Davis

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Ralph Waldo Emerson